Instructors for 2002-2003 Workshops

Carol Berkin received her B.A. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University where she won the Bancroft Dissertation Award. She is a professor of history at Baruch College and deputy chair of the department of history at the Graduate Center. She teaches early American and women’s history.

Kenneth J. Campbell, Ph.D. is associate professor of political science & international relations and Director of the International Relations program at the University of Delaware.

Dr. Campbell was born and raised in Philadelphia. He enlisted in the US Marines after graduating high school in 1967, serving with distinction as an artillery forward observer with a rifle company in Vietnam in 1968-69. After receiving an honorable discharge from the Marines he became a local leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He also began his undergraduate studies at Temple University, earning a B.A. in history in 1975. For the next eight years he worked as a factory worker, a shipyard painter, a taxi driver, a bus driver, and a hospital technician. In 1983 he returned to Temple University to pursue graduate work in political science, earning an M.A. (1985) and a Ph.D. (1989). His dissertation explored the military’s lessons of Vietnam.

Dr. Campbell has taught at Temple University, Villanova University, Ursinus College, and Washington College.. He has received awards for distinguished teaching from the Temple University, the University of Delaware, the Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society, the American Political Science Association, and Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society. He has presented research papers at scholarly conferences in the US, Canada, and Europe. His publications include Genocide and the Global Village (Palgrave, 2001), as well as book chapters on genocide and war crimes in the Encyclopedia of Government and Politics, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2004), Genocide: A Critical Bibliographical Review, 6th ed. (Transaction, forthcoming), and Give Peace a Chance: Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement (Syracuse University Press, 1992). He also published journal articles on humanitarian intervention, national security strategy, and the Weinberger-Powell Doctrine in Civil Wars, Armed Forces & Society, and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. He has been interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Los Angeles Times, the Newark Star Ledger, and the Christian Science Monitor and has made guest appearances on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, CN8’s It’s Your Call with Lynne Doyle, and WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane. His current research is focused on the power of morality in international relations.

Prof. Campbell is married, has a grown daughter, and lives in Philadelphia where he listens to Italian opera, watches old movies, and plays bad golf.

Brooke Hunter teaches American History including courses on the American Revolution, Native Americans, and the environment at Rider University. Her research concentrates on the intersection of economic, cultural, and ecological revolutions in early America.

David Suisman is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2002. He has published numerous articles on music and popular culture in 20th century America. His upcoming books include The Sound of Money: The Commercial Revolution in American Music and The Social History of American Popular Music: A Reader.

Gary May, Professor of History specializes in American political, diplomatic, and social history since 1945. He received his Ph.D. from U.C.L.A. in 1974. He is also the Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) Program.

Jonathan Russ, Assistant Professor of History. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Delaware and began teaching at the University of Delaware in 1995. His fields of research and teaching include History of Delaware, U.S. Business, and 20th Century U.S.

Raymond Callahan is Professor of History and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Science. He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from Harvard University and began teaching at the University of Delaware in 1967. His fields of research and teaching include Military History and 20th Century Britain.

Anne Boylan is Professor of History. She received her Ph.D. in 1973 from University of Wisconsin, Madison and came to the University of Delaware in the fall of 1988. Her fields of research and teaching include: U. S. Social History and History of Women.

Peter Kolchin, the Henry Clay Reed Professor of History, received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1970. A member of the History Department at UD since 1985, he specializes in nineteenth-century American history, southern history, the history of slavery and emancipation, and comparative history. His publications include First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama’s Blacks to Emancipation (1972); Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (1987); American Slavery, 1619-1877 (1993); and A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective (forthcoming, 2003).

Raymond Wolters received a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1965 he joined the faculty of the University of Delaware, where he is the Thomas Muncy Keith Professor of History. His specialty is the history of American race relations, and he is the author of five books: Negroes and the Great Depression (1970); The New Negro on Campus (1975); The Burden of Brown (1984); Right Turn (1996); and Du Bois and His Rivals (forthcoming 2002).

Christine Leigh Heyrman, Professor of History , has been a member of the UD department since 1990. Her teaching and research specialties include early American history and the history of American religion. She is the author of Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750 (1984) and Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (1998); she is also a coauthor of the American history survey textbook, Nation of Nations (1994; 2nd ed, 2001).
The university recently awarded Prof. Heyrman with a Distinguished Chair Professorship, which will become effective as of September, 2002.

Susan Strasser is Professor of History. She received her Ph.D. in 1978 from SUNY Stony Brook and has been at UD since 1999. She is the author of Never Done: A History of American Housework (1982), Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (1989), and Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (1999); the co-author of Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society (2000) and Washington: Images of a State's Heritage (1988); and the co-editor of Getting and Spending: American and European Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century (1988) and Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885-1933 (1998). A scholar of everyday life in a consumer culture, she has taught courses on American industrialization, environmental history, business history, and the history of consumption.

Cathy Matson is Associate Professor of History. She received her Ph.D. in 1985 from Columbia University and came to University of Delaware in the fall of 1990. She has published A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America (1990); Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York (1997); and the textbook The American Experiment, Volume 1 (2001). Her fields of research and teaching include: American Colonial, American Revolutionary Era, Atlantic World, Early American Economic, 1600-1800.

Barry Joyce, Associate Professor, is the Director of the History Secondary Education program at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Riverside, in 1995. Last year he published The Shaping of American Ethnography; The Wilkes Exploration Expedition, 1838-1842 (2001). He teaches courses on the American West, Native American History, and the Gilded Age. His research interests include any topic that enables him to better understand the origin, evolution and shaping of American images and ideas.

James Magee is a professor of political science and one of the most popular teachers at the University of Delaware. In addition to teaching courses on constitutional law and history, he is the author of Mr. Justice Black, Absolutist on the Court (Charlottesville: University Pres of Virginia, 1980).